Carrier construction



Filed Sept. 16, 1957 V. T. MANAS CARRIER CONSTRUCTION 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 INVENTOR.

VINCENT T MAN/1S BY $10M ubm fzicli ATTORNEYS May 24, 1960 v. T. MANAS 2,937,381

CARRIER CONSTRUCTION Filed Sept. 16, 1957 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR. VINCENT T. MANAS BY 190ml; 6; M1014 ATTORNEYS United States Patent CARRIER CONSTRUCTION Vincent T. Manas, Washington, D.C., assignor to Josam Manufacturing Co., Michigan City, Ind., a corporation of Delaware Filed Sept. 16, 1957, Ser. No. 684,360

Claims. (Cl. 4-170) The general object of the present invention is to provide a carrier for back to back mountings for lavatory bowls, sinks, counters and the like.. I

Heretofore carrier structures have been provided which can be enclosed in the wall structure for supporting various utilities against the wall of the room without burden on the wall structure. However when two adjacent rooms are provided with such utilities separate carriers have been provided to support the lavatory bowls, etc.

I have determined that by the provision of special headers all the features of installation and advantageous universal adjustability of the fixture supporting arms can be retained while aifording the mounting of like fixtures in different rooms in back to back relationship and they can be mounted on a single carrier structure. I accomplish this single chair double arm support for back to back installations by the use of novel offset headers on the vertical masts or posts of the chair whereby the mast connecting parts of the headers may occupy the same space while the arm connecting portions of the headers are ofiset relative to the vertical masts of the chair structure.

In the drawings, Fig. 1 shows a back to back lavatory installation wherein the fixture backs approximately abut the walls and the supporting arms are concealed by the fixture aprons;

Fig. 2 is similar to Fig. '1, but shows an installation with. provision of supporting heavy duty load bearing arms for supporting counters, heavy sinks and the like;

Fig. 3 is a plan view of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a plan view of Fig. 2, and

Fig. 5 is a perspective detail view of a header element.

The carrier proper usually comprises a base or foot member having a flat bottom and vertically extending boss 11 cored or bored, to receive the bottom portion of a mast or post 12. The mast, a tube, rod or the like, is afiixed to the foot 10 by a set screw 14. Two' masts usually areused to form the chair or carrier and a spacer rod 16, extending parallel to the wall throughjopenings formed in the foot members, wherein it is secured by set screws 17, horizontally spaces the foot members and mast tubes when the chair is adjusted horizontally to properly locate the fixture supporting arms relative to the fixtures to be supported. This carrier structure so far described is prior practice insofar as the foot members 10, masts 12 and spacer rod 16 is concerned and comprises no part of the present invention other than the foot 10 is symmetrical in construction to balance the two way load to be applied to the mast.

Heretofore headers or brackets were fitted upon the mast tubes for attachment of a single arm to a bracket thereby to support the arm on a mast. In the present instance I provide a compound or duplex bracket structure or header comprising two identical header members 20 and 21 so formed as to comprise a hinge like structure with the eyes or bosses 22 and 23 of the respective header members having vertically aligned openings into which the upper region of the mast tube fits. Set screws 24 and 25 secure the header members in place 'once the vertical adjustments have been made. The header structures so far described are embodied in both forms of headers shown in Fig. 1 and Fig. 2.

To confine the header structure of Fig. 1 to a mini mum wall thickness 0f-six inches I form the eyes or bosses offset from the block like bodies 27 on the header members 21 and 22 which are centrally located so that threaded openings formed in the bodies 27 will be alignable in a common horizontal plane and the threaded bosses receive adjustable sleeves 28. The threaded sleeves 28 receive the tubular ends 30 of the fixture supporting arms so that the arms and sleeves are longitudinally adjustable to meet the structural dimensions of the back to back fixtures 32. The arms 31 have provision for the usual leveling of the fixture in the form of adjusting screws or bolts 34 hearing on the under side of the fixture wall and locking latches '35 in any suitable form secure the arms and fixtures together.

In the Fig. 2 construction, again. the header members 20-21 are provided with vertically extending ofiset bodies 27, Le. offset With respect tothe mast, which are provided with bolt openings for the reception of vertically spaced adjustable bolts 38 for supporting the exposed arms 40 of suitable shape and strength to form a can tilever support for heavy sinks, counters and the like. These bodies are adapted also to have cross plates bolted thereto where hanger hooks are used to support a sink or other fixture.

In the Fig. l'and Fig. 2 headerconstructions provision is made for a top spacer rod 16a, the ends of which extend through suitable openings formed in the bodies 27 of the header members and are therein secured by set screws 16b threaded in the bosses, thereby serving to stabilize the headers in a right angled arm supporting relation to the ultimate wall surface.

A variety of adaptations of installation assembly is aiforded by use of the chair and header construction shown; and it is apparent to those skilled in the art that the supports for the arms may be lengthened or shortened to approximate the fixture backs to the wall surfaces, which makes it possible in practice to have a wall of minimum thickness of six inches and a finished wall of maximum thickness of as much as twenty inches. Various cross beam shapes maybe used with the headers; as' mast connections such as hanger beams for supporting the rear wall of sink structures; or two or more sets of headers may be used-on a single mast to'support two or more hanger plates. v s

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art'that the disclosed carrier construction can be used for mounting a single fixture by omitting one of the header elements from the assembly. z i r,

In practice two masts and pedestals are used with cross rods 16 and 16a engaging in the rod openings formed in the foot members and in the bodies or brackets of the header elements. The vertical positions of theheaders are determined by tightening of the respective set screws of the headers, thus forming a vertically extending frame with the faces of the offset bodies extending normal to the direction of extension of the arms to be mounted thereon. The carrier is positioned with the masts thereof disposed at the center of the wall structure to be constructed and the arms are adjusted to desired back to back relation, so that the fixtures to be mounted on the arms, after the wall structure encloses the mast structure, will be in abutting relation to the wall or spaced from the wall-as the case may be. If the fixture is to be spaced from the wall, as for instance a wash or lavatory bowl with fiat top, finished escutcheons may cover the exposed parts of the arms 30. Leveling adjustments of bolts 34 may then be made so that the fixtures are mounted in a common horizontal plane and the fixtures are then locked or latched to the arms with suitably known means 35.

Apart from the advantage of providing a carrier which can support fixtures back to back relative to a comparatively thin wall (e. g. six inches), there is an advantage in manufacture in that the header elements are identical in structure but afford the offset attachment of the arms by simply assembling one header element reversely to the other on the mast tube in hinge-like manner.

I claim:

1. In a carrier construction for supporting fixtures in back to back relation and adapted to be enclosed within a wall structure, a pedestal adapted to be disposed below the finished floor level of the room in which the fixture is to be installed, a vertically extending round mast member supported by the pedestal, a head construction mounted on the vertical mast member comprising two head elements with hinge knuckle formations fitted upon the vertical mast member in interfitting relation to each other, said head elements each having the hinged knuckle formations spaced apart a distance substantially the width of a knuckle, means for locking the respective elements to the vertical mast member and said elements having bracket formations offset with relation to the mast member and to each other, said offset bracket formations having horizontally aligned openings when assembled in interfitting relation upon the vertical mast member, and adjustable means extending in said openings for connecting oppositely extending fixture supporting arms to the head elements.

2. In a carrier construction for supporting fixtures in back to back relation and enclosed within a wall structure, a pedestal disposed below the finished floor level of the room in which the fixture is installed, a vertically extending cylindrical mast member within the wall structure and supported by the pedestal, a head construction mounted on the vertical mast member comprising two like head elements with two hinge knuckles on each element fitted upon the vertical mast member interfitted in inverted relation to each other on the mast member, said head elements each having means for locking the respective elements to the vertical mast member and said elements having bracket formations olfset relative to the mast member, said bracket formations having horizontally aligned openings when the head members are in position upon the vertical mast member and adjustable means extending in said openings for connecting oppositely extending fixture supporting arms to the head elements.

3. In a carrier of the mast type described, bowl fixture supporting arms, a mast member, a head structure comprising two substantially identical head members having boss formations with central openings extending therethrough with the mast member extending through the central openings, said boss formations being spaced apart a distance approximately equal to the thickness of the boss formations said members being assembled in vertically reverse relation to each other upon the mast member, a pedestal structure supporting the mast member, each of said head members having a bracket formation offset relative to the center of the mast member with horizontally aligned threaded openings formed therein, and horizontally adjustable means supported in the bracket openings for supporting the bowl fixture supporting arms.

4. In a carrier of the mast type described, bowl fixture supporting arms, a mast member, a head structure comprising two head members having boss formations with central openings extending therethrough, said boss formations being spaced apart a distance approximately equal to the thickness of the boss formations and said members being assembled in vertically reverse relation to each other upon the mast member, each of said head members having vertically extending offset portions adapted to support a fixture supporting arm, a pedestal structure supporting the mast member, and offset portions having horizontally aligned openings, horizontally extend ing adjustable means disposed in said horizontally aligned openings, and bowl fixtures supporting arms attached to said horizontally adjustable means.

5. In a carrier construction for mounting fixtures back to back and free of the floor comprising, a pedestal supported mast member, a head structure vertically adjustably mounted on the mast member said head structure consisting of two substantially identical relatively horizontally swingable interengaging head members having hinge knuckle formations through which the mast member vertically extends, said head members being inverted on the mast member relative to each other and carrying means for securing the head members to the mast structure and said head members having offset body formations relative to the knuckle formations for supporting fixture supporting arms, two arms extending in opposite directions relative to the mast and adjustable means for each arm and for connecting the arms to the offset body formations of the head members.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS xii N 

